APEAA 2022: "Environments: Ecologies and (In)Hospitalities" (42nd Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies) University of Coimbra Coimbra, Portugal, March 31-April 2, 2022 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apeaa2022 |
42nd Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies
31 March – 2 April, 2022 - Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra
Call for Papers
ENVIRONMENTS: ECOLOGIES AND (IN)HOSPITALITIES
At a time when we have been invited to withdraw, escape or find solace in virtual atmospheres, notions of environment are in pressing need of re-examination or re-materialization. The recent pandemic context reinforced generalised anxieties about the multiple factors that act upon us as organisms and organic communities and have forced us to consider the challenges but also the possibilities of placing ourselves in direct contact with the natural, technical and political other.
Coined by the German zoologist Ernst Haeckel, the term oekologie signals the relation between the animal worlds and their organic and inorganic environments. Debates as specific as those about ecological solidarity vs environmental corporatism, or as wide as those about the evolution of our social, technical or financial ecosystems can be illustrative of the multiple cultural, linguistic or cognitive issues that need to be further re-examined from an ecological perspective, not least within the environment of our academic ecologies. Ecological approaches also result in questioning the central role of human language activity and the need to rethink language itself at the crossroads of a myriad of other semiotic possibilities, physical space, material objects and embodied resources. It may be useful to return to the Derridean discussions about hospitality and inhospitality resurrected by the so-called Refugee Crisis and exacerbated by other contexts.
Many disciplines have joined forces under the banner of the Environmental Humanities (EH). In the wake of the crisis of the Humanities, this broad interdisciplinary field emerged largely as a response to the awareness of the limits of planetary resources as a consequence of long periods of violent and unequal exploitation of ‘nature’. The deep and complex changes produced by humans on the environment define the current era, the Anthropocene, as proposed by Crutzen and Stoemer. Seeking inspiration in the notion of ecology, EH championed an ecological perspective to address anew not only the relation between culture and nature, but other established dyads, such as matter / emotion, body / land, agency / inaction, materiality / humanity, animal / human, or physis / nomos.
We hope the 2022 APEAA meeting will allow us to promote a hospitable and interdisciplinary forum to discuss these and other related matters. We invite creative and critical insights that press the field ahead and evince the contribution – and the difference – the Humanities (in particular Anglo-American Studies) can make to the debates at stake, in and beyond academia. Pieces of research unrelated to the EH will be considered as long as they focus on Anglo-American Studies.
The conference will be in presence, unless the pandemic situation changes.
Submission Guidelines
The organisers will welcome proposals for 20-minute papers in English responding to the above. The following categories are welcome:
- Single papers
- Four-paper panels
- Post-graduate panels
List of Topics
The organisers welcome proposals for 20-minute papers in English responding to the above.
Suggested topics:
- the politics and poetics of scientific, literary and artistic discourse on ecology
- ecology and academia
- ecologies of language and translation
- language, multilingualism, and translanguaging
- inclusive language pedagogies
- the Anthropocene and ethnocentrism
- public causes: political action, ecology, ethics, and rewriting
- ideology crises and new beliefs: disruptive humans and post-truth
- subaltern identities and protest: gender, class, nation, race, sexuality
- humanities, materialities, and the posthuman
- mobility, (in)hospitality, and community
- new forms of regulation, sanitation, and surveillance
- rights and citizenship in vulnerable environments
- beyond city and country: new definitions of environment
- animal studies and zoopoetics
- histories of the environment / historicizing ecology
Areas covered (but not exclusive): linguistics; literary and cultural studies; translation; language learning/teaching; other disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Scientific Committee
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Aline Ferreira (CLLC - Languages, Literatures and Cultures Research Centre, University of Aveiro)
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Ana Daniela Coelho (CEAUL/ULICES - University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, University of Lisbon)
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Ana R. Luís (CELGA-ILTEC - Centre for General and Applied Linguistics, University of Coimbra)
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Carla Ferreira de Castro (University of Évora)
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Fernando Alves (CEHUM - Centre of Humanistic Studies, University of Minho)
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Gonçalo Cholant (University of Coimbra)
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Hermínia Sol (CEAUL/ULICES - University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, Polytechnic Institute of Tomar)
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Isabel Alves (CEAUL - University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro)
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Jane Duarte (CECC - Centre for Communication and Culture, Catholic University of Lisbon)
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Jorge Bastos da Silva (CETAPS - Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies / CEAUL/ULICES - University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, University of Porto)
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Karen Bennett (CETAPS - Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, NOVA New University of Lisbon)
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Katarzyna Pisarska (CETAPS - Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies)
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Margarida Pereira (CEHUM - Centre of Humanistic Studies, University of Minho)
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Margarida Vale de Gato (CEAUL/ULICES - University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, University of Lisbon)
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Maria Teresa Castilho (CETAPS - Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, University of Porto)
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Maria Zulmira Castanheira (CETAPS - Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, NOVA New University of Lisbon)
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Marinela Freitas (ILCML - Institute for Comparative Literature Margarida Losa, University of Porto)
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Patrícia Vieira (CES - Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra / Georgetown University)
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Reinaldo Silva (CLLC - Languages, Literatures and Cultures Research Centre, University of Aveiro)
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Rogério Puga (CETAPS - Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, NOVA New University of Lisbon)
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Rui Carvalho Homem (CETAPS - Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, University of Porto)
Organizing Committee
- Maria José Canelo (chair)
- Clara Keating
- Graça Capinha
- Jorge Almeida e Pinho
- Manuel Portela
- Susana Araújo
Invited Speakers
- Ana Luísa Amaral (Institute for Comparative Literature Margarida Losa, University of Porto)
- Alastair Pennycook (University of Technology Sydney)
- Mike Baynham (University of Leeds)
Ana Luísa Amaral (Universidade do Porto)
Estranhar o Estranho: Que Tempos São Estes?
Assistimos hoje, no mundo ocidental, ao desmoronamento dos direitos sociais, a novas formas de violência social e económica e de coerção de liberdades, assim como a sucessivas tentativas de apagamento da democracia. Vemos ainda emergir e consolidar-se o avesso da hospitalidade e do exercício da ética do cuidado. Simultaneamente, e no que às políticas sexuais diz respeito, novas configurações de organização social e de afectividades têm vindo a emergir, surgidas de um tipo de pensamento emancipatório grandemente devedor dos feminismos e dos movimentos sociais dos anos 1960. Procurarei debater a convivência destas duas realidades: o profundamente estranho, sobretudo para uma geração que viveu a segunda metade do século XX, destas novas formas de autoritarismo; e de como a teoria queer (=estranha, esquisita), com todas as suas implicações de activismo e de pensamento radical, é vista pelas forças reacionárias e neo-fascistas como uma ameaça. E como o pensamento novo que ela traz, ao lado dos feminismos (e de mais uns “objectos estranhos”, como a poesia), pode ser um motor de resistência a estes nossos tempos.
Alastair Pennycook (University of Technology Sydney)
Where is language? Ecologies, distributions and materialities
This paper explores questions around the locus of language. While language was traditionally, at least in scholarship in the Global North, located primarily in the human head, more recent trends have suggested viewing language from different perspectives. While humanist and cognitivist lines of thinking were concerned centrally with the idea of a language system in the brain, other approaches to language have suggested this needs to be rethought. Questions of embodiment suggest that language cannot happen without a broader understanding of voice, gesture, movement and the body. Posthumanist studies, meanwhile, question the centrality of the human, suggesting that we need to take other forms of communication more seriously and ask why we have so fetishized human language. New materialist approaches propose that many aspects of language, identity, agency, cognition and so on are better understood as happening within a much wider ecology that includes aspects of the material world. Indigenous colleagues have meanwhile insisted on a deep relationship between language and the land, not in referential terms but as emplacement. From these perspectives language is only partly, and not very importantly, located in the head. It is instead better understood in social, ecological, material, distributed and embodied terms.
Mike Baynham (University of Leeds)
Translanguaging: language borderless or embordered?
In this paper I present a “maximalist” approach to translanguaging (c Baynham & Lee 2019 ). Underpinning this discussion is the persistent difficulty noted since Whorf onwards in conceiving language as languaging i.e. dynamically, when the metalanguage is a language like English with its preference for “thingification”. This approach to translanguaging can be termed maximalist in that it extends the construct beyond its initial focus on the deployment of two or more languages in the repertoire (interlingual translanguaging) to consider the deployment of registers (intralingual translanguaging) and other semiotic orders (intersemiotic translanguaging), inspired by Jakobson’s seminal work on translation (Jakobson 1959). While the interlingual and intralingual dimensions would still be quite recognizable to Jakobson, the intersemiotic focus has expanded exponentially over the last three decades, due to work in the visual/verbal/gestural/embodied in multimodal communication (cf Adami 2017) and in linguistic ethnography and ethnomethodology by such as Charles Goodwin (cf Goodwin 2001). I propose two other types of translanguaging that go beyond Jakobson’s framework, interdiscursive translanguaging (in which what is being mediated in the repertoire are discourses rather than languages, registers or modes) and, going beyond a simple focus on gesture, to consider translanguaging at the language/body interface, informed by the recent work of Judith Butler (Butler 2015). I will conclude by discussing how this approach to translanguaging connects in interesting ways to other theoretical constructs such as the notion of spatial repertoire and assemblage/agencement. In addition this approach to translanguaging has interesting implications for how we understand the currently vexed question of borders and emborderment which I will discuss in relation to Mary Louise Pratt’s contact zones and Mezzadra and Neilson’s Border as Method. I will show how a maximalist approach to translanguaging enables productive thinking about the current tensions between the linguistic dimensions of borderlessness (aka globalization) and emborderment.
Venue
The conference will be held at Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra.
Calendar & Fees
Submission deadline: 30 December 2021
NEW submission deadline: 20 January 2022
- Acceptance notice by 30 January 2022
- Submit abstracts (300 words) to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apeaa2022
Registration Fee:
Early Bird (16 February – 10 March 2022)
- APEAA members – 50€
- APEAA student members (undergraduate, MA and PhD) – 15€
- Non-members – 90€
Late Registration (after 10 March 2022)
- APEAA members – 70€
- APEAA student members (undergraduate, MA and PhD) – 25€
- Non-members – 110€
Registration is now open
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Sponsors
- Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies (APEAA)
- Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (CES)
- Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra (FLUC)
- Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures (DLLC), University of Coimbra
- Fundação Engº António de Almeida
Contact
For further information, please contact the organizers via email: 42apeaaconference@gmail.com